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THE NAVAL INQUIRY RE E HIPSANG."

The Ruding of the Naval Court at Shanghai, touching the loss of the an. Hipang, is as follows:-

That the steamship Hipsaag was suck by being sholled and torpedoed by a Russia torpedo-boatdestroyer, number 7. name wuknow, Position approximately on July 16th, 1904. Lat 38.55.30 N. Long. 120.57.30. E

That the master was a fully experienced -officer, and having been la command during the Franco-Chinese war, and the Chino-Japaness war, and also daring the present way, ho wan fully cognisant of the ordinary established neages of war as regards belligerent and neutral vessels. That there was no contraband on hourd the Hipsang, end the only passenger was ove Russian merebant besides twenty-two Chinese; there was no Japanese an board,

That the master appears to bave navigated bi vest 1 is a seamaniks evd proper manner, And to have acted in a correct manner when olaflenged by the Russian destroyer, in so much that he stopped, vent full speed astera, and when the way was off the ship, again stopped the engine and further, when he was challenged he at once made known bis nation rlity. When the casualty was inevitable the mastor appears to have done all in his power That the olierte and crew appeared to have carried out their duties to the last moment mad to have and their utmost endeavours to save the lives of the passengers the loss of life being reduced to one passenger.

to save Hio.

That the vessel appears to have been suflolently manned and seaworthy at the time of the loss.

That the Court destres especially to direct the attention of the Board of Trade and the Foreign Offleo to the fact that the steamship Hiprang was proceeding with due caution between Newchwang and Chefoo on a correct course, and that without any just cause or reason, was sunk without any warning by being torpedoed, and that the loss of life was due to shell fire, prior to the act of torpedosing the vessel, std that those acts were done by a Russian terpedo-boat destroyer, name unknown, but numbered 7.

That the Court, in pursuance of the powers vested in it by section 483 of 57 Bud 58 Vict. chap. 60, orders that the sum of £8.10, being the costs of the proceedings before the said Court, be paid by Meaars. Jardino, Matheson and Co., at whose request the Naval Court was aammoned, and they are hereby ordered to pay the said amount accordingly.

Girs at Shanghai this 23rd day of August,

· 1904

The judgment we are taken from the Shanghai Mercury. Here are some salient features of Captain B. C. D. Bradley's evidenos, as reported by the N-C. Daily News

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The authentic Est of the people on board the Hipsang at the time when she was torpedoed by the Russian destroyer No. 7 is, I believe, as follows:

Robert C. D. Bradley, captain A. G. Bmith, chief oficer John Cartwright, 2nd officer... F. J. Collier, chief engineer......... W. Watson. 2nd engineer W. Bishop, 3rd ginger

Mr. Rosenberg, alias Sorobrenik, saloon

passenger Chiness sailors... Chinese firemen Chinese quartermasters Chiuess saloon stof... Chinese compradore staff Chinese passengers to Chofeo Chinese passengers to

Shanghai

Chefco and

Chinese supercaryces to Canton

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15

90 in all

Killed on board. 2 Chinese male passengers to Cheloo; Chinese female passenger to

Chefco; 1 Cbnese male passenger to Chefoo. pposed drowned; Chinese learn-pidgin

messroom boy drowned-5 in all.

Died in hospital at Port Arthur-1 Chinese No. 3 compradore; 1 Chinese male passenger to Chefoo-Via al'.

Left wounded in hospital at Port Arthur.--1 Chinese male passenger to Chefoo; 2 Chiness female passengers to Cheton; 1 quartermaster compradors tallymon; I supercargo to Canton-

all.

John Cartwright, the second officer, according to the Mercury, depused that it was a torpedo

that struck the dipsang. r ftarevoral other shots

The Court also said:

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*the working-boat go down by the run and up. the stern. Before the ship was struck by this at about, I think, 3 p.m. There we werend all of them clinging to the forward fall, It shell or torpedo, the English ensign was up and mustered in the yard, and the Chinese Wate flying from the flagstaff aft, end I had re-divided into two lots and takou away to quarters the Eurovean passes among them, cognised the Russian ensign on the torpedo in the Tail. We Europeaus wors then marched appears that the French engineer ving taken Getting boat-destroyer. When the way was early off off to the Police Station, which was only a short all his clothes off, jumped overboard and am near her, he called out to those on board that the ship, I rang "stop" on the supine-room distance away. There we were allowed to ait toward the torpedo.best destroyer. telegraph; and then recognising that the ship down on a long bench outside the Police Station. thers were English nen on board the ship and was doomed, the idea of fo-bolts for the After waiting quits a time,

to go alongside and save the people. The Chinese came into my mind, so I ran dowa into the Police Station, and showa into a large Rassians then lowered their boat and picked the saloon to one of the cabins where they had room, where a gentleman in cuiform and wes him up, and then the destroyer was steamed heon kept, but found that others had been before ing a decoration came forward to shake hands alongside the ship by the starboard fororigging, Still weing two, I snatched these up, and introducing himself as the Captain of the and the rest of the people were got on heard of

the passed

Hetvisan. He spoke very good English, and noticing big carving-kaffe sa pantry door, I picked it up to cut away the having asked me to be seated at a desk, predriced ber. When I gave up the 4th gripe lashing as pens, ink awl paper, and asked me to writs down bed job because of the seizing, and jumped lashings of some of the boats. Fausing out of the saloon, I threw thu lehelts at some of the answers to questions that he would ask me. dewa ou dick, I saw the destroyer alchgside

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ag before related. Chinese, and then clambered up on the boat Chess questions related to the sinking of the the ship, so I havried along the Chinese to her skids and started in cutting adrift the starboard forward life boat, so that she could float of ipang and what had taken place. I did no; and having done so, he then asked me to sign when the ship sunk. I then cut through three my name at the end of the paper, which I did. the next boat aft, but This gentlemen was exceedingly courteous and of the gripe fagbings could not cut through the fourth lashing kindly in his manner, and at once made me feel because of re-seizing. Finding that I at ease. After I had left the room the officers could not cut it through, I threw away the knife and engineers wers called in to the same room and jumped down on desk, and then noticing one at a time and I was given to undersland by to that the torpedo-host destroyer had come along them afterwards that they had been askel by side the ship on the starboard side by the fore the same gentleman to write out answers rigging, and that the people were wetting ever questions he had asked relative to the sinking of the rail and on board of her, I began hurrying the Hipong. After all had done so, the captain ald him that we had not had the Chinese along the deck towards the fore of the Retuisan asked me if we had had any part. Most of them being on hoard the dea-food, and when I treyer, the officers and engineers began calling anything to eat since our arrival at Pigeon Bay, out to me to come on board the destroyer; where we vers given soms hard-boiled eggs having kointed a young Chinese women over and a slice of bread-and-butter, he said he the rail who had caused me some delay, and got would have sonte food sent to us from the slab. her caught hold of by some of the people on the As it was by this time getting dark, we wers torpedo best destroyer, I got down a ropa on to asked to sit down in a large room of the police. the bridge of the destroyer, where the captain station; and later on, plenty of food and bottles The Russian captain then asked me if I of beer were brought to us. Having eston, we was.

were then taken down the hill a bit, to an had got the ship's papors. To which I answered words to this effect," By Jove! no; slaan forgat empty house that bad two rooms in it, not far from the police-station; and there a bl was all about them; but Fjally soon get them." And I started back to get them. The chief brought for each of us, a mattrass, pillow, and officer wanted to go, saying "Captain, let me blanket, and in that house we remained during go"; but I would not let him; so getting up the our sojourn in Port Arthur, a gendarme being skle again, I rau along the main deck and on guard over night and day during the Hot meals, consisting across, and up on to the lower bridge and into whole of the time. the chart-room; collared hold of the dispatch of vegetable or meat soup, and meat or fish, box, to get it and myself back on board the and a supply of bread, was applied to torpedo-boat destroyer The Russian captain twice a day by the guards, and for the first gave some orders in Hassinu, the eight days... through I believe the kindness then

cast off, Aud

the destroyer of a Russian Police officer and his wife, who rope was

from the Hipsang. which lived in the house text to ours, we were supplied backed away

Then with tea and sugar, gland saucers candles was raising her how out of water. the Hipsing raised her bow right out of the and soaps, from what I believe were their private But when they left their house, owing water to wear the No. 2 hold, and the funnel stores. was engulfed; and she then slid down stor to the roof leak ng vory badly during heavy first and disappeared beneath the rat . leaving rain, and changed into another house some dis-had been fired.

tance away, those luxeries came to a full stop; some wreckage and the starboard life-bost I think fosting bottom up about to above the spot and although they generously loft us their samovar to make tea with. and a supply of where she had disappeared. As some of us ou the destroyer then noticed a Chinaman on a

saucers and glasses and tra-spoons, we then had to provide for ourselves. On the next day, the piece of wreckage, and what looked like siother one on another piece, I asked the captain of the 17th, we were again called up to the polies-station one at a time, and asked farther questions by destroyer to stear towards them. He did so. and on the way I saw one of the Hipranga bosts the captain of the Hetrian: waiting down out

Before we got to

answers, and signing our names to our naswers. Tues. Hipsang having hore her anchors up doating, full of Chinese and managed to turn head down stream under where the Hipsang went down this boat came And on the 18th or 19th (I forget new which steam, proceeded from the anchorage at Now alongside and all the Chinese came chwork down river towards the Nerohwang board. Then the second officer and someday, but I believe it was the 18th) I was called found the captain of the Refnisen there, and Bar under the charge of pilot Lawrenes. The the Russians got into the boat and pulled to up to the police-station, end entering the room passage down the river and across the bur was wards the wreckage. They rescued two Chiness, another Russian officer of high rank, who I one of whom was severely wounded in the lega

officer, but I may have been mistaken. There managed uithout stoppages, and the pilot was

I liepmbarked outside of the Newohwang Bar at Then the ship's bout having been passed autora understood to be by introduction & military law and the painter sacured. the Russian torpelo was also present a young Russian officer, and about 6 pm. I (the Captain) then took some azimuths by the sun to check the errors on the boat steamed towards the mainland towing the on the table, the 8.8. Hipsang's dispatch box, courses that would take the ship down the coast Hipsang's boat asters of her. We passed close tied up. locked, and sealed. The captain of the AUTOMATIO MAUSER ducing the night, and then the ship going full-slong the north shore of Reef Island and then Retvisan showed me the seals, and that they speed ahead, at about 5.10 p.m., I sat the course headed for Pigeon Bay. Whilst on the bridge were unbroken, aud having naked me to un- S. W. by the standard compus, which of the torpedo-boat destroyer. I asked the luck the ber he then broke the Russien seals Russian captain what he meant by bring on

and nutied the sizing, and would be 8, 23 dag. W. tras. At about 11.15 p.m. Reef Point was abcam, either 2 or 33 defenceless merchant ship dying the British

himself at the desk, prepared to write down ab you not stopp"

I told him I did stop inventory of the contents, but as he did not bip-oring to a strong ebb tide--had como down the cost at a much greater rate over the the engines as quick as I could get to the appear to understand much about writing Eng. ground than I had estimated that she would telegraph, and I then tried to explain to him fish with such technical words as manifest. travel, I then rang "bulf-speed" on the engine that a single screw steamer going at full spead cargo certificate, etc., I suggested that perhaps tdegraph, and altored the coness to B. by ahead could not be brought to a standstill in an I had better do the writing, to which the cap W.1 W. nothing 8, which would be 8. 17 deg. Instant of time by her engines; that I rang tain of the Refrisan expressed a glad assent. on the engine room telegraph as quick The captain of the Retiran then took out the W. true, and would be I expected a true couras of 9, 18deg. W. The reason why I reduced sp1 as I could after he bad fired the first time. documents one by one, and I noted them down

on & paper. When they were all noted down theD to half-speed when off tref Point was and that I almost immediately after (as

documents were all pet back in the dispatch because, having received notices from the thin-he fred again) sang "full speed astorn," hal

box, and I was asked to sign my name at the ese Imperial Maritime Customs that floating that of course the propeller could not bring the

end of the list. But I hare not seen either the mines had been seen on the open sea, and that ship to a standstill at once, as the ship was

documents or the dispatch box since that day. some had been seen in the neighbourhood of Iron bound to caris good headway for a minute or

After the list had been completed, the captain Island, I want d to have good daylight when two until the backing power really began to take offect, and that he should have made allowinco

of the Reteisen protuer? a British Adraically getting down to Iron Island so that I could sen

obar of the Gulis of Prohili and Liaotong, also THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATSES objects floating on the water, and, if mines, for that sort of thing, and then found out wko

we were and where we were bound to.

a straight edge and projector, and asked me to avoid striking them. Thought of danger from aither Russian or Japanese mon-of-war ûre good deal of talk on that subject, he then asked lay down the courses I had stored after leaving mo why the ship'e lights were not burning, the Newchwang Bar. I did so, and having never at any time occurred to me,

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more questions about was abeam bearing East by the standard com brightly, and that the ship hed particularly be asked me some pass, and distant 1 miles. I then altered the good lights. He also asked me why I had red whether I bad seen any lights when pat

I had course to B. by E. and went dowu off the bridge. The weather being beautifully clear his ship, and that it was ridistons of his to sing Facbon Bay and whether

whether during the passage up from Chofeo to for miles all round the ship and the land boldly imagios that anyone on board the Hipsang could stopped the engines during the right; and distinat, only frou Icland had a small cloud hava fred at his ship, his ship being a man-of-Newchwang I had seen any torpe to-bonts; and war, and that anyhow it was commonsense that resting on its sumsit, and a long way ahead thors was an appearance as though fog bank merahant seamen caught on the hop as we were, was making up from the southward. At about wouldn't think of firing at may body, but with 4.20 am-1 at that time being in my room and the ship sinking under their feet would only We spoke a good think of saving their lives. going to till my pipe-I heard the sound of a shot fired from somewhere to the westward of desi together almost constantly on the way to the ship. I at once put my pipe down and sau Pigeon Bay, and he asked me if I would have out of ray room to the bridge ladder, meating some coffee and spirits, but I did not wish shy the second officer half-way down the ladder, and He was kindly and courteous in his manner, and who aid words to this effect, "A torpedo-boat track me as being not only a brave man, bat hes fired a shot across the bow, sir." I answer-kind-heartel man. He deplored war, aa. being ed with words to this effect, All right, sir, terrible thing. His officers also were very kind, hoist the easiga ap," and running up on the supplying spirits to those that acaded some, and bridge and across to the talegraph stand, clothing alse, and having the wounded attended rang"stop" on the engine-room telegraph. I to end bandaged and given something to est had no sooner done so, than another shot was fired from a torpela-heat destroyer that was on pur starboard side abaft the beam. Ist once rang "full speed astorn on the engine-room tele- graph. Then another was fed from the torpedo-boat destroyer, and then another and another the intervals between the shots

nn'ocked and

It is evident that the flipsang had her lights alight, and after the first shot her cours were immediately hoisted, but notwithstanding this, the destroyer ared a torpedo and struck the vessel, thereby causing her to sink within the evident that there was suelent light to are space of half an hour, viz., at 4.40 am. It is both the class of vessel, the nationality, and

Boats were then lowered and the destroyer came whether the steamer had stopped, day having broken and there being no fog in the vicinity alongside and assisteil to save life, but the crew release on August the 2nd. and passengers were kept prisoners until their

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